Olivia Spring
writer / editor / magazine-maker / reader
founder & editor of SICK, a magazine by chronically ill & disabled people

selected work
Bruises (and the white line on my thigh), SICK issue 3, August 2021
Working in the creative industries with chronic illness, It’s Nice That, May 2020
Letter from the editor, Rekto: Verso, June 2021
Hot Summer, The Grapevine, August 2020
On the 171, Ache issue 2, July 2019
‘We’ve made a shrine at home’ - Liverpool and Tottenham fans, in pictures, the Guardian, June 2019
Girls who escaped captivity from Boko Haram tell their stories, Marie Claire, 2017
Interview: Tracey Emin, [smiths], May 2016
interviews & reviews
Shelby x Studios interview, April 2022
Bite my Tongue podcast guest, August 2021
lutte collective, featured artist, January 2021
magCulture, review of issue 2, August 2020
Stack, review of issue 2, August 2020
New York Times, 28 Ways to Learn About Disability Culture, July 2020
education
Goldsmiths, University of London BA (Hons) journalism, class of 2018
Intern at the Guardian Weekend and Marie Claire magazine, 2019 & 2017
Write like a Grrrl, fiction writing courses, 2019 & 2020
other stuff
Represented by Seren Adams of United Agents
Monson Arts resident, September 2021
Member of Resting up Collective, an interdisciplinary group of chronically ill and disabled friends practicing slowness/crip time to create, think, and interrupt neoliberal pressures and expectations on the body